{"product_id":"9781770561069","title":"Human Resources","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2008 Trillium Book Award for Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWrite for buyers. Write for bosses. Think hyper. Think branding. Tell your visitor where to go. Poetry and ‘plain language’ collide in the writing machine that is \u003cem\u003eHuman Resources\u003c\/em\u003e. Here at the intersection of creation and repackaging, we experience the visceral and psychic cost of selling things with depleted words. Pilfered rhetorics fed into the machine are spit out as bungled associations among money, shit, culture, work and communication. With the help of online engines that numericize language, \u003cem\u003eHuman Resources\u003c\/em\u003e explores writing as a process of encryption.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeeply inflected by the polyvocality and encoded rhetorics of the screen, \u003cem\u003eHuman Resources\u003c\/em\u003e is perched at the limits of language, irreverently making and breaking meaning. Navigating the crumbling boundaries among page, screen, reader, engine, writer and database, \u003cem\u003eHuman Resources\u003c\/em\u003e investigates wasting words and words as waste — and the creative potential of salvage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘In this bad-mouthing and incandescent burlesque, Rachel Zolf transforms a necessary social anger into the pure fuel that takes us to “the beautiful excess of the unshackled referent.” We learn something new about guts, and about how dictions slip across one another, entwining, shimmering, wisecracking. For Zolf, political invention takes precedent, works the search engine.’ – Lisa Robertson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47161881297136,"sku":"9781770561069","price":10.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781770561069_p0.jpg?v=1763706579","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781770561069","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}